Boy, that news had to bother a whole mess of folks in Madi­son who wished otherwise.

Nor­mally, the spring pri­mary elec­tions this year would be con­sid­ered low-profile. How­ever, they did receive some extra atten­tion, more for how peo­ple voted and not who the were vot­ing for.
Wisconsin’s new voter ID law went into effect, with no major inci­dents in La Crosse County.

“They were pre­pared last year when we kept ask­ing them. We had 7 elec­tions last year, of which 5 of them we asked for the ID’s for that soft imple­men­ta­tion,” said Dankmeyer.

She says it was the new vot­ing dis­tricts that caused the real confusion.

“It’s more of peo­ple show­ing up at the wrong polling places or peo­ple show­ing up to vote and they’re not in that dis­trict to vote,” said Dankmeyer.

Some peo­ple were vot­ing at a new place for the first time in a decade. How­ever, they were warned ahead of time by the La Crosse city clerk.

This suc­cess­ful dry run of course won’t mat­ter to that small, vocal minor­ity of pro­fes­sional lib­er­als who hate the very con­cept of Voter ID, but I have to hand it to the crew at the GAB. Their sys­tem of dry-runs last year were suc­cess­ful at prepar­ing at least part of vot­ing public.